Apply for individual support for participation in working life

You can apply for additional support services on a case-by-case basis if the nature or severity of your disability makes it necessary for you to take up training or employment. Examples of individual support are

• Motor vehicle assistance
• work assistance
• Technical work aids
• aids
• Loss of earnings
• Housing assistance

If the employment agency is your responsible rehabilitation provider and you meet the requirements for funding, it will cover the costs.

Information on the respective individual grants:

Motor vehicle assistance

There are various benefits that you can apply for:

• Grant for the purchase of a motor vehicle
• Assumption of costs for disability-related additional equipment and repairs to additional equipment
• Cost subsidy for the purchase of a driving license
• Benefits in cases of hardship, such as a subsidy for transportation costs incurred by transportation services

The grants for the purchase of a motor vehicle and driving license depend on your income. The Employment Agency will cover the full cost of any additional equipment required due to a disability.

If you buy a car, you will receive a maximum grant of EUR 22,000 of the purchase price. There is an exception if you absolutely need a vehicle with a higher purchase price due to the nature and severity of your disability.

Alternatively, you can also receive a subsidy for transportation costs under the hardship regulation. As a rule, you will have to pay your own share.

Work assistance

Are you generally able to participate in working life, but need support with your employment due to your disability? Then work assistance will help you to fulfill your professional duties.

Work assistance goes beyond occasional handouts. It is regularly recurring support for severely disabled people in terms of time and activity. You must perform the actual work yourself. Short-term and irregular assistance is not covered.

The aim of the service is to help you find a job that is subject to social insurance contributions. The costs of work assistance are covered by the responsible rehabilitation provider for a period of up to 3 years. You also have this overall entitlement if you change jobs. If you continue to require work assistance after the maximum funding period has expired, the Integration Office is responsible for providing support in working life.

However, in order to simplify the administrative process, the integration offices take over the implementation of the benefit from the outset.

Technical work aids

Technical work aids are devices and equipment that make a workplace accessible to people with disabilities. They are intended to compensate for disadvantages caused by a disability.

Examples of technical work aids:

• Screen reader
• One-handed keyboard
• Orthopaedic office chair

Technical aids are tailored to your individual needs at the workplace. As the subsidized items become your property, you can take them with you when you change jobs.

Assistive devices

Support in the context of participation in working life involves aids that are required due to the nature and severity of your disability

• for training or vocational training,
• to participate in a benefit for participation in working life or
• to increase safety on the way to work or at work.

Aids include, for example, orthopaedic safety shoes or orthopaedic foot protection if they are required exclusively for activities in a specific occupation or vocational training.

Loss of earnings

You or a person required to accompany you have to travel to a training course or to an interview at a new job. And this is only possible during normal working hours? Then you or the person accompanying you will be compensated for any loss of earnings.

Housing assistance

Housing assistance benefits include financial assistance for

• the costs of acquisition,
• furnishing and
• the maintenance of a disabled-friendly home.

This should enable you to reach your place of vocational training or your workplace as independently and barrier-free as possible. The specific benefits depend on your personal situation and needs.